Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-10-15

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MR. RlSSFLL MRS. CLEVELAND.
Blssel is fully six feet tall. He is the heavy
man of the crowd. and he would weigh, l
julge, 80 pounds He has q big head on
big shoulders, and is full Of life and jollity.
The two newspaper men who accompanied
the presidential party are among the oldest
Of the Washington correspondents Mr..
Bickford has been for years with the Asso-
ciatei Press and he is the correspondent who
has charge Of its news in the United States
senate Bickford is tall. thin and refined
looking. He has gray hair and mustache,
and he is a mam of considerable culture and
an able writer The other newspaper man is
Mr.. =. Y. De GTaw, who is the manager OF the
United Press at Washington.
] see that William T. Crump, who was Gar
fields steward, is very sick i'll one Of the little
villages near Washington Crump ruined
his health in taking care Of Garfield. end the
government cut down his bill for extra ser
vices rendered from 5000 to $500 He told
me today that lie was beside Garfield day and
night during; hi. last illness. and that he hurt
his back in lifting the president He had to
lay Off work on accoun, Of his i'll health, and
since then he has had 10 wear wide band
around his abdomen and has not been able to
bend over and pick up anything. His shoes
have to hs put on foe him, and his nervous
system ID such that the least excitement
brings On n fit of sickness. He received
81 500 a gear a. steward and bc served under
Hayes md Garfield He told me once he did
not hk, Arthur because he sat at the table
I'LL L. and o'clock Of a night, and it took the
servants till daylight to get the dishes
washed During Garfeld's administration
he kept notes OF all the prominent
people who came to the White House, and
he has the bills OF fare of every dinner which
occurred during his administration. doubt
not he is sorry he ever entered the White
House Few Of the men connected with Gar
fields sickness made anything out Of it. DR..
Bliss estimates that his attendance cost him
from $3u, 900 TO S50,00O. He had q practice
at the time which second TO none in
Washington and b income must have been
twice that of n supreme judge. Garfeld's
illness took the whole OF his time, and at its
close he was SO worn down that he looked
like ghost and he had TO take vacation to
recover his health. He estimated his ser
vices to Garfield very low when he put them
at $1,000, but the auditing board cut him
down to s60oo, and he came back TO find
that his patients were pretty well scattered
among the other doctors. He has not been
in good health since Garfield's illness and his
condition WAS SO lad last year that his life
was almost in danger. This year he is better
and his eyes are bright, though his hHir is
gray.
Idropped into the treasury yesterday and
looked at the workmen who are engaged III
constructing the new vault. The treasury
itself looks like tomb. 1t has great somber
columns down each side OF it, and the doors
of its basement are so cut that they look as
though they were dug out OF a solid rock.
Everything about it is massive, and il makes
me think more Of the Dank OF Eng than
any other building l have seen. 1t is made
in the shape of hollow square, with wide
tiers of granite walls running around court
in the center. II is i'll this court that the new
vault Is being built. Thick walls of brick
and cement rise within, and the vault will be
above and not below ground Its interior
will be cut up into cells walled with iron lat
tice wor.., and the workmen are now riveting
the iron bars composing it together. These
bars must be very strong, as the weight Of
the silver which is 10 be put in the vault will
be immense There was portable furnace
blazing away within the vault today, and four
men were carrying red no, rivets and stick
ing them through the holes which had been
drilled in these iron bars. They were then
rivetei with the pounding OF heavy ham,
mer while man held an iron mallet against
them at the back. Each OF these latticework
walls requires ., 500 rivets, and it will take
more than 10000 Of these riyets TO fasten
the iron work Of the vault together. The
vault is to contain SlO0, ,Ooo, 900, which is such
an immense sum that few people can COM
| prehend it. 1t W IA give some idea Of it to
know that its weight will lie $3.50 tons. or
| tie weight OF O., so men Of 2OO pounds each.
Think of the leayies, man YOU know, and it
.o,,iJ toll. 9, 0OO sucb p,e,, IN weigh as much
IL: - I, u,,,,a To-. "a s-.;,h,
-. :. an, !, would t.lo . tr.in .
mile and quarter long 10 transport IL It's
weight would b. so much that SIX locomotives
could hardly haul 1t, AMI II these collars were
| laid out SO that one Just touched the other
| they would make line 2,joo miles long III
they were put into floor, edge to edge,
they would carpet ten times the area of
the Capitol or moro than thirty acres, ahd II
| they were piled one upon another they would
reach much more than LOU times as hish
as the Washington monument making .
solid column OF silver more thah la EiiIes
high A MILLION dollars in silver Is no small
| quantity, and when you pack Elo,oo,1o
into Il vault 1t has to lie as strong as stone
and iron can make 1t. To rob this vault viii
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